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Lunna looked pretty handy on his last visit to Sheffield. He always looked quick, but no his last visit he seemed to have mastered the art of staying on the bike. Perry has had some decent showing around Sheffield, and Bewley rode Sheffield quite a few times last season and got better with each visit. Smith looked okay on his one and only meeting around Sheffield last season and outscored JPB on that night.

A lot will depend on how the Scottish Tigers top 3 go on Thursday. Summers and Worrall can both be a tad inconsistent. Lawson can good but a lot will be depend upon how well he is gating. Since the big investments by Glasgow over the last couple of years their performances around Sheffield have been disappointing. Should be an interesting meeting and big test for the South Yorkshire Tigers,think we should get the win but it will be close.

Todd Kurtz.

Maybe.

Todd Kurtz has been struck down with a mystery virus. So it will be Lewis Bridger Guesting for Bjerre. Rider Replacement for Kurtz.

Good win for the Tigers and valuable 4 points taken to move us up the league. Kyle Howarth once again showing what a wonderful season he is having and I think it is only a matter of time before he takes the number 1 slot at Sheffield. But he had some wonderful back up from the two Josh's and Lasse. For Scunthorpe I think that they are will continue to pay the price of Rob Godfrey's loyalty to certain riders. Josh Auty has spent a season or two too long at Scunthorpe, and either the rider or the Promoter needs to have the balls and say goodbye and move on. Douglas is another one, spectacular rider and good to watch, but once again he is injured and missing and there seems to be pattern there. But while Rob Godfrey is doing what he is doing makes it easier for us to get a victory, as was proved today.

I agree about the heat 2 did a great job nursing JPB around, I had no idea that he was a borrowed engine. I like the fact that Rob looks out for his inexperienced partner and is prepared to be good team player.

Another win notch up for the Tigers, just need to start getting some points on the board on our travels. Both teams suffered some misfortune, and a shame that both Bears failed to finish heat 13 with machine problems as that race was shaping up to be a great race. The incidents with Barker, would love to say that he was at fault as I don't care much for him but I don't think he did anything wrong. Long time since I have sen the Sheffield track produce dust, and the track did look very slick on the inside why can't spread the dirt line more evenly, instead of high and wide near the fence. Is there a more exciting rider than Jason Garrity out there very entertaining rider, the big problem with Jason is keeping him fit, which is I think one of the reasons why Sheffield did not ask him back. For the Tigers Kyle Howarth continues to impress me especially since he took over captaincy where he leads by example, and Rob Branford is another who seems to ride with his brain. Finally the delayed start of 15 minutes due to fans having problems accessing the car park, don't have a problem with that , but why then have an interval.

Probably the toughest test for the Tigers with this one, and the team that could well cause us the most problems. Made a little bit easier with the Bears missing Andersen (is he injured?), but still will be difficult. Would imagine that the crowd will be swelled a bit with a few coming down from the Land of Parmo. Should be a good match up.

Right lets get the facts right. Last season every team had was required to have one British 3 point rider. Taking out all the British 3 point riders, there was only 26 British riders that were given team place in the then Premier League. Of those 26. 5 were signed by one club. Sheffield. Even with dropping Richard Hall and bringing in Sissis his team was predominately British. All the teams that he has built at Sheffield since 2014 have been not only predominately British but also featured a fair sprinkling of local riders from Sheffield or close by. Stead Birks Greaves Parkinson Blackburn Finally at the recent British Speedway Youth awards ceremony at the Nuneaton Speedway Supporters club Neil Vatcher praised Damien for his support of the British Youth system. Also if you look at the list of sponsors for the British Youth Speedway you will see the company PBHS, which is Bates family business, putting money into possible future British stars. I will leave it up to you to decide whether or not dropping Richard Hall for Arthur Sissis means that he prefers foreign rider to British.

Totally agree I am mile and half from the track, and it is the same here. I reckon at the best we would have got 6 heats completed at the most.

It was a joke. A rubbish joke, but a joke.

The forecast was for heavy showers between 6 till 7 originally in Sheffield. That has since been changed to 8 till 9. At best they would have got 5 to 6 heats race in that time, not even Rob Godfrey could run a meeting in 30 minutes. I would say that the lessons have been lean't from last season when meetings were cancelled at the very last minute.

Completely different story at Sheffield, we had no problem with the lad. The thing about him is that he is a gater and if he gates generally no one can catch him. I do think that the expectation for him from some of the Berwick fans was a tad over the top, if you break down his near 7 point average last season you will see that he had a near 8 point average at Sheffield and little over 5 point average I think that tells a story.

The changes to the Berwick team should show a slight improvement, but to be honest they look as though they are papering over the cracks, and I would still fancy my side to get up there and come away with some sort of points. One thing I do think it says is that Bridger is on last chance saloon, the way the team is made up he has to come up with the goods, if he does not then my guess is that he could well be the next to be shown the door.

Kyle Howarth I think he will finish the season Sheffield number 1. Also been pleasantly surprise with Todd Kurtz at Sheffield.

Cracking meeting last night with two very committed teams, Peterborough never laid down and gave in. The racing was also good although to me the track looked no different, what appears to me a dirt line around the outside of the track no dirt on the inside of the track, but they seem to try to bring back some dirt on the inside of the track but not as much as on the outside. Hopefully they can prepare the track like then again, as the entertainment value was a big improvement. As for the teams I think that Sheffield is once again becoming a fortress and teams will have to be on their A game if they want get anything at Sheffield, every rider is doing their job. Peterborough surprised me, they were far better than I had anticipated, I do think that they may find it bit difficult when BWD moves into the main body of the team, and he will sooner rather than later because he is taking extra rides for others something he won't be able to when he moves up. Overall feeling very satisfied.

Lets set the record straight here regarding PLRC, or as its new name will be CLRC or whatever they choose to call it. It was nothing to do with the track good or bad depending upon what you think. At the last AGM Sheffield threw the hat into the ring to run the event. Glasgow then decided that they would like to run the event and applied. Upon hearing this Scunthorpe then applied. There was a vote and the result was follows; Glasgow 5 votes Sheffield 4 votes Scunthorpe 1 vote Glasgow won the vote to run the event.

If you want to get the best out of Berge, you need to have him riding at the number 2 riding slot. Check out his last seasons scores when riding for Sheffield last season when he was riding at that position.

We should be at full strength for this one. We don't normally go well at Brough Park, but fro us to get anything from the meeting we will have to make sure that we get shared heats that feature Lambert and Worrall, and try and get some sort advantage when they are not out. Heats 13 and 15 could well be our downfall.

Great Performance and one that I did not see coming. The started to come together when JPB held of Schlein to give us a 5-1 to take the lead and we never looked back after that. All round team performance and vry special mention for Guest rider Mark Riss who was superb. Upwards and Onwards for Tigers.

Cannot be far off the new set of green sheets come out and I would wait for that as quite few of the Bandits averages will drop. I would replace Blacklock with either James Sarjeant (Kyle Newman due back soon, so James time would be up at Ipswich) or Stefan Nielsen. Move Carr down to reserve Move Berge to number 2 in the riding order (where he is most effective) Doolan to either 3 or 4 to partner the new rider. Vissing to 5. Do that and you at least stop the rot at home.

I would not disagree with the comments bout the track, marginally better than last season, but far from perfect.

Right my take on last night. Decent crowd not quite the same amount that attends PLRC, but not far off. Racing was not great, not good,but then again it was not that bad,it was okayish. Meeting presentation was a let down, dragged on far too long and distinct lackof information coming from the centre green presenter. On the 100's drifting way after heat 12, not sure where the person who made the comment was stood but I was on the first bend and its was still packed out on there after hear 15. Was it a good marketing ploy or was it a flop. Who knows the proof in the pudding will be after the next couple of meetings then we will all know. Onto the meeting itself. With Somerset replacing Josh G with Nathan Greaves, balanced the two teams For Sheffield I was really impressed with Rob Branford and Todd Kurtz, Branford rode very intelligently and Kurtz did far better than I expected. Kyle Howarth play a true captain role and he battled well to win heat 15. Josh Bates looked more than capable, and JPB made a steady start. And Josh G and Lasse Bjerre will sure have better nights. For Somerset was impressed with Hougaard and Wright, the rest were a bit of a disappointed. So with the with the first look at the team, they can do better but was enough to feel confident for the rest of the season.